We have the anchorage all to ourselves right in behind Long Point. We arrived yesterday, 2025-06-23, but nobody will see this until we get more than intermittent 3G ;-). The weather is the same as yesterday, 15 from the WSW, sunshine and blue skies. We spent the full day yesterday beating into the short sharp Lake Erie chop and decided we deserve a quiet rest today. I don’t think I will ever again choose to beat into more than 10 knots on Lake Erie, especially with a full Lake of fetch.
The shore shallows quickly once you hit 20 feet, and we are anchored on visible bare sand in 10 feet, but well off shore, about 1/4 mile out.
One of yesterday’s highlights was a little flock of eight or ten purple martins that took over the second spreaders for about 10 minutes just after we anchored. They flitted around and landed repeatedly chirping “look at me” and could have been eating spider’s catch, or just playing. Then they were gone as suddenly as they arrived.
Another lack of detail on the Orca charts — they don’t show the many well heads and pipelines that blanket the bottom of the lake. Navionics do and this helped us miss any hardware with the anchor.
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